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ABC will most likely screw this up with PC clap trap, but it is an interesting story.

If somebody just came up with this theory now, no. However, there is evidence, that the Merovingian line believed they were the descendents of Mary Magdalene and Christ. As wrong as they most likely were, it is a historical fact, and it is interesting.

I find the history of the Rosenberg's interesting, even though they were on the wrong side of history. I am going to withold judgement on this one, until the report airs.

If it is done respectfully, and balanced in the sense that it shows how much of a minority this position is, while at the same time, dealing with the history of those who believed this to be true, it could be compelling viewing. The Knights Templar were most likely kooks. It doesn't make them uninteresting though. There was alot of strange stuff being believed. I find the history of the late middle ages to be intriguing. You had witches, alchemists, and secret societies. What's boring there? You can study this, without taking it to be Gospel truth.

132 posted on 10/31/2003 4:48:01 AM PST by dogbyte12
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"I think it was not sufficiently balanced," said Joseph DeFeo, policy analyst for the Catholic League. "The majority of the people who spoke believed in either the plausibility or the outright truth of (book author) Dan Brown's claims. The facts themselves scream out that this is a crackpot theory."

[The Knights Templar were most likely kooks.]

A rabbi, offended by the man's inhumanity, leads a revolutionary religious movement which grows into a cult, takes a wife, and is killed by those against whom he preaches. The wife isn't killed but lives on with their child or children. - Anyone saying that is kooky?

A virgin gives birth to God who is then killed only to come back to life three days later and flies up into heaven. - That's not kooky (People with earnest yet vacant stares nod agreeingly.)

Uh huh. Sure.

145 posted on 10/31/2003 5:50:38 AM PST by Jim Cane
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